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Definitions for WAD
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Princeton's WordNet
wadnoun
a small mass of soft material
"he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wadnoun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wadverb
a wad of something chewable as tobacco
pack, bundle, wad, compactverb
compress into a wad
"wad paper into the box"
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wadverb
crowd or pack to capacity
"the theater was jampacked"
Wiktionary
wadnoun
An amorphous, compact mass.
Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
wadnoun
A substantial pile (normally of money).
With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan
wadnoun
A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
wadnoun
an ejaculate of semen.
wadnoun
Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits
wadverb
To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
wadverb
to wager
Etymology: waidan, whence also Old High German weit
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Wadnoun
Etymology: weod hay, Saxon.
ChatGPT
wad
A wad is a thick pile or lump of a soft material typically used for padding, stuffing, or packing purposes. Additionally, it may also refer to a large quantity of money, usually in the form of bills, held together in a bundle.
Webster Dictionary
Wadnoun
woad
Wadnoun
a little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow
Wadnoun
specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose
Wadnoun
a soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc
Wadverb
to form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton
Wadverb
to insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak
Wadnoun
alt. of Wadd
Etymology: [See Woad.]
Wikidata
Wad
Wad is an old mining term for any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral-rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits. Typically closely associated with various iron oxides. Specific mineral varieties include pyrolusite, lithiophorite, nsutite, takanelite and vernadite.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Wad
wod, n. a mass of loose matter thrust close together for packing, &c., as hay, tow, &c.: a little mass of paper, tow, or the like to keep the charge in a gun.—v.t. to form into a mass: to pad, stuff out: to stuff a wad into:—pr.p. wad′ding; pa.t. and pa.p. wad′ded.—n. Wad′ding, a wad, or the materials for wads: a soft stuff, also sheets of carded cotton for stuffing garments, &c. [Skeat refers to Scand., Sw. vadd, wadding; cf. Ger. watte, wadding, wat, cloth (whence Fr. ouate); ult. allied to weed.]
Wad
wad, a Scotch form of wed, also of would.
Wad
Wadd, wod, n. an earthy ore of manganese.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
wad
A kind of plug, closely fitting the bore of a gun, which is rammed home over the shot to confine it to its place, and sometimes also between the shot and the cartridge: generally made of coiled junk, otherwise a rope grommet, &c.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
wad
To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun.
wad
See Grommet, and Junk-wads.
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ADW
AWD
daw
DAW
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of WAD in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of WAD in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of WAD in a Sentence
I remember when we first got married the only money we had was what was in Chip’s pocket, he always had a wad of cash, but we were broke. If I needed to go grocery shopping it’s whatever was in his pocket. That’s how we paid the bills.
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